Hello Monday and Happy Columbus Day to all my Italino amici! Yesterday we sawThe Judge with Robert Duvall & Robert Downey, Jr. It was so great and powerful (two kleenex.) But one thing that bugged me: look for the scene where Robert is having a conversation with his daughter in the car. Where’s the head rest?….This week Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters are sitting in with the band on the Late Show with David Letterman. Set your DVRs! I have been burning sage, lighting candles and praying to the gods that I get to talk to them while they are in town. And I am gladSpin knows what the new single is before us radio people. ​ They say the band will release a new song called “Something From Nothing” on Thursday (Oct 16th), with the song available to radio stations and online. The track is the first official single from the band’s upcoming album, Sonic Highways, which is out Nov 10th. The HBO series about the making of the record premieres on Friday (Oct 17th), while the band begins its week-long residency on Late Show With David Letterman on Monday night (Oct 13th)….Pulse Of Radio reports former Korn drummer David Silveria has posted a message on Facebook in which he thanks the band’s fans on the 20th anniversary of the release of their self-titled debut album, while also apologizing he won’t be able to celebrate by performing on the group’s upcoming tour. Silveria wrote, “To all the Korn fans around the world, I want to thank you with all of my heart for all of the success. Without the fans, Korn would just be a hobby.” He continued, “As we celebrate the 20th anniversary of our debut release, I can’t believe it’s been 20 long years. I’m sorry to all of the fans that I couldn’t be there on tour to celebrate the anniversary, but that’s just the way it goes.” Silveria was the second member of Korn’s original lineup to depart, leaving in late 2006. Guitarist Brian “Head” Welch exited the group in 2005 and continued working as a solo artist until rejoining Korn last year, Silveria retired to Huntington Beach, CA and opened a restaurant. He actually used his old drum cases and gear as furniture for one of his restaurants and sold most of it off! Singer Jonathan Davis told us a while backhe believed Silveria had lost his passion for music: “David was there to write beats but he wasn’t really there. He really didn’t like playing drums. The first two albums, I think, he really enjoyed playing drums and then after that he just lost his love for playing drums. It happens. Okay, good for him, he wanted to move
on and do something else.” Personally, it would be cool to ask David to come out to play on a song perhaps, but to be recalled to be the drummer on their upcoming tour? Mmmm, I don’t think so. Ray Luzier is a formidable and talented drummer whose skills are second to none. He is Korn’s drummer now and for the foreseeable future….Pulse also reports with just over a week to go before the October 21st release of its new album, Slipknot has unveiled another new track from the set called “Custer.” The song follows the sneak preview track “The Negative One” and the official first single, “The Devil In I.” The album, called .5: The Gray Chapter, is the band’s first since 2008 and the first without drummerJoey Jordison and late bassist Paul Gray. “Custer” starts out with a discussion in the studio between band members, followed by radio announcer-like proclamations from singer Corey Taylor, ringing alarms and an aggressive beat from drummer Jay Weinberg. Taylor told Metal Hammer that the new album is laid out like a story ”from the moment Paul died to the moment we stepped out of the studio. So there are certain songs that deal with, not Joey in particular, but about the tension and trying to deal with the ugliness that we all have in us.” In addition to Weinberg on drums, Slipknot has reportedly recruited Alessandro “Vman” Venturella on bass, although the band has yet to confirm the new players’ identities. Slipknot will follow the release of the album with the three-day Knotfest in California at the end of this month and a North American tour….Also from our friends at Pulse, this report on Royal Blood. The band has released a new music video for the song “Ten Tonne Skeleton,” taken from the band’s self-titled debut album. The dark clip finds the duo playing the song alongside a gorge while a woman flees a crime scene marked by shotgun shells and an abandoned police car. The single version of “Ten Tonne Skeleton” in the U.K. will be backed with “You Want Me.” Royal Blood’s upcoming tour of the U.K. sold out in just two minutes and the duo are also up for the prestigious Mercury Prize, one of England’s highest music honors. Royal Blood has taken their native U.K. by storm and singer/bassist Mike Kerr told us they’ve been helped by the support of other British acts like Arctic Monkeys: “Arctic Monkeys became aware of our music and sort of were very supportive from the beginning, really. The drummer, Matt Helders, wore our band’s T-shirt at Glastonbury on the main stage when the Arctic Monkeys played. They’ve really been very supportive.” Royal Blood will make their return to late night American television on Wednesday (Oct 15th), as they perform their current single, “Figure It Out,” on NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers. We are waiting for confirmation the band will drop by the hardDriveRadio studios in midtown Manhattan on Thursday…I loved catching up last week with Maria Brink from In This Moment! We are both upstate New York girls: she’s from Albany and I’m from about an hour away but we both have homes on the Great Sacandaga Lake! How cool, right? And I just learned William Shatner does too! Right near my home! I think it’s nuts I have never bumped into him since that town’s population is 2000. Yeah, I’m a hick. Anyhow, Maria gave us a little insight into what the new In This Moment song, “Sick Like Me,” is about: “That’s kind of about embracing more of these things in me that I used to kind of keep ‘em inside and they’re a little bit twisted and they’re a little bit wrong, I guess. And also, when you find another person who really, I guess, knows who you are and they find all of these things that maybe I would consider flaws in myself — they find that beautiful and like, I guess, things that make me who I am.” Lou Brutus will get with her and the band at Knotfest. She can’t wait to kick off the band’s Black Widow Tour! I hear they are planning a release day party here in NYC! I hope that happens! Meanwhile, here’s the cool and creepy “audio visualization” of ”Sick Like Me.” The real video is coming out soon. The band filmed that and “Big Bad Wolf” at the same time…Finally, some news from the Tool
